Disseminated on behalf of  Powermax Minerals Inc. (CSE: PMAX) (OTCQB: PWMXF) and may include paid advertising.

• The two additional claims extend high-priority exploration targets identified in a 2025 airborne geophysical survey.
• Integrated magnetic, radiometric and geochemical data suggest a phosphate-rich NYF-type REE mineral system.
• The acquisition cost was $3,000, subject to a back-in right if option conditions are not met by August 31, 2028.
• The Atikokan Project lies within the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Superior Province, a geologically prospective region.
• The move comes amid rising global demand for rare earth elements and Western efforts to diversify supply chains away from China.

Powermax Minerals (CSE: PMAX) (OTCQB: PWMXF), a Canadian mineral exploration company, is expanding the footprint of its Atikokan Rare Earth Project in northwestern Ontario, adding two contiguous mining claims that management says capture extensions of high-priority exploration targets identified in recent geophysical work (https://ibn.fm/2cnc3).

The company announced on February 6, 2026, that it has acquired a 100% interest in the additional claims under a property purchase agreement dated January 30, 2026. The claims adjoin Blocks B and C along the northern boundary of the Atikokan Project in the Thunder Bay Mining District. The newly acquired ground comprises 37 contiguous mining claim cells in the Ignace-Atikokan area. The claims were secured from 0761585 BC Ltd. and 1544230 Ontario Inc., both arm’s-length parties, for cash consideration of $3,000.

The agreement includes a back-in provision. If Powermax does not satisfy all conditions required to exercise its broader option over the Atikokan Project by August 31, 2028, it must transfer its interest in the additional claims back to the vendors at no additional cost. The expansion builds on a purchase option agreement signed June 18, 2025, covering the broader Atikokan property. The counterparties to that option are also the vendors of the newly acquired claims.

Management said the decision followed a 2025 high-resolution helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey across the project area. Results released in January 2026 indicated multiple structurally controlled rare earth element (“REE”) targets associated with granitic and pegmatitic host rocks and coincident magnetic lows.

According to the company, elevated thorium-to-potassium (“Th/K”) radiometric ratios, interpreted as proxies for total rare earth element (“TREE”) enrichment, delineate alteration zones that correlate spatially with interpreted structural trends and lake sediment TREE anomalies.

The integrated geophysical and geochemical signatures are described as consistent with a phosphate-rich NYF-type REE mineral system. NYF systems, enriched in niobium (“Nb”), yttrium (“Y”) and fluorine (“F”), can host concentrations of rare earth elements alongside thorium and uranium.

Chief executive Paul Gorman said the company negotiated the additional ground after reviewing the airborne data, which suggested that high-priority targets extend into the newly acquired area. “We are excited to continue exploration at Atikokan and look forward to the assay results from the Q4 2025 exploration program that was just recently conducted,” he added.

The Atikokan Project lies within the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Archean Superior Province. The property is underlain by metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks intruded by granitoid plutons, including granodiorite and granite. Much of the project area is associated with the White Otter Batholith, a large composite intrusive complex regarded as prospective for REE mineralization.

Powermax currently holds an option over 455 unpatented mining claims at Atikokan. Beyond Ontario, the company has an option to acquire the Cameron REE Property in British Columbia and the 5,178-hectare Pinard REE project in Northern Ontario. It also owns a 100% interest in the Ogden Bear Lodge Project in Crook County, Wyoming.

The Atikokan expansion comes amid intensifying interest in rare earth elements globally. Demand for REEs, critical inputs in permanent magnets used in electric vehicles, wind turbines and defense technologies, is projected to rise sharply over the coming decade. Industry estimates suggest global demand could triple from roughly 59,000 tonnes in 2022 to 176,000 tonnes by 2035, while the market is forecast to grow from approximately $3.95 billion in 2024 to $6.3 billion by 2030.

At the same time, supply chains remain highly concentrated. China accounts for roughly 60% of global rare earth mining and about 90% of processing capacity. Recent export restrictions on certain critical minerals have underscored geopolitical risks for Western manufacturers.

In response, the United States has deployed the Defense Production Act and other mechanisms to channel more than $1 billion into domestic rare earth and critical mineral supply chains, including long-term purchase commitments. Canadian companies may be eligible for certain U.S. defense-related funding programs, adding a policy dimension to exploration efforts north of the border.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.PowermaxMinerals.com.

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Exploration Target Cautionary Statement

The exploration targets discussed are conceptual, and there is currently not enough data to confirm a mineral resource. Further exploration may not yield successful results.

Disseminated on behalf of Trilogy Metals Inc. (NYSE American: TMQ) (TSX: TMQ)  and may include paid advertising.

• Trilogy Metals’ Arctic Project in Alaska’s Ambler Mining District hosts probable mineral reserves of 46.7 million tonnes grading 2.11% copper, 2.9% zinc, 0.56% lead, plus gold and silver, supporting a feasibility-stage development plan
• The Arctic Project is part of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects spanning roughly 190,929 hectares, a district-scale land package prospective for additional polymetallic discoveries
• Alongside Arctic, the nearby Bornite Project contains an inferred copper resource of 6.527 billion pounds, providing a second major mineralized system within the same Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects area

Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (“VMS”) deposits are one of mining’s most interesting paradoxes: they form in tectonically active environments, yet they often deliver the kind of metal endowment that makes a district worth building infrastructure around. For investors trying to understand why certain base metal projects command attention in any cycle, VMS geology explains why some deposits can be high-grade, polymetallic, copper or precious-metal rich, and repeatable across a belt.

Trilogy Metals (NYSE American: TMQ) (TSX: TMQ) is a case study in what happens when that favourable geology is present at a district scale. The company is focused on Alaska’s Ambler Mining District through the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (“UKMP”), a large land position that includes the feasibility-stage Arctic VMS Project and the Bornite copper-cobalt system. 

VMS 101: How the Seafloor Builds Metal Endowment

A VMS deposit is essentially the fossilized footprint of a hydrothermal system that was deposited on or near the seafloor. In simplified terms, seawater percolates down through fractures in hot volcanic rocks, heats up, leaches metals, then rises back to the seafloor, where it vents into the ocean. As the hot, metal-rich fluids cool and mix with seawater, sulphide minerals precipitate and accumulate, often forming thick, high-grade lenses. This is why VMS deposits are typically associated with ancient underwater volcanic settings and why they commonly occur in clusters along a belt rather than as isolated, one-off occurrences.

This has important implications for mining economics. VMS systems tend to concentrate multiple metals together, commonly copper and zinc, with lead, silver, and gold credits. That polymetallic nature can create multiple payable streams and, in favorable metallurgical conditions, meaningful byproduct offsets. It can also reduce dependence on a single commodity, a practical advantage in metal price cycles.

Why VMS Projects Can Be “District” Stories, Not Single-Deposit Stories

A second key trait of VMS belts is repetition. If the right geological “plumbing” existed once, it can occur again nearby, especially along the same structural corridor. That is why many of the world’s most productive base metal camps are better understood as belts containing multiple deposits, rather than as single, isolated mines.

Trilogy’s Arctic Project is positioned in that style of setting, as part of a total land package of about 190,929 hectares (471,796 acres). 

In the context of VMS exploration, scale matters because it increases the odds of finding additional lenses, satellite deposits, or completely new deposits that can extend mine life.

Arctic: A Feasibility-Stage VMS Deposit with Polymetallic Grades

At the center of Trilogy’s near-term development narrative is the Arctic Project, a VMS deposit advanced to feasibility-study stage. In the January 2026 corporate presentation, Trilogy reports mineral reserves of 46.7 million tonnes grading 2.11% copper, 2.9% zinc, 0.56% lead, plus 0.42 g/t gold and 31.8 g/t silver. 

Those grades underscore the defining VMS attribute: compact tonnage paired with high metal intensity and a meaningful mix of payable products. The same presentation frames Arctic as supporting a 13-year mine life and provides base-case economics (pre-tax Net Present Value of $1.5 billion and 25.8% Internal Rate of Return at a base-case copper price of $3.65 per pound). 

VMS grade and byproduct credits can translate into robust per-tonne value when the project is engineered and permitted appropriately.

Bornite: A Second Major System Inside the Same Project Area

While Arctic represents the flagship VMS-style development plan, Trilogy also points to Bornite as a substantial source of copper within the broader UKMP footprint. Unlike the Arctic VMS deposit hosted in volcanic rocks, Bornite is hosted by limestones and dolomites that are sedimentary rocks. The corporate presentation cites an inferred copper resource of 6.527 billion pounds at Bornite, associated with 208.9 million tonnes grading 1.42% copper. 

Bornite’s importance in a “Geology 101” discussion is that it shows UKMP is not a single-deposit story. In districts where infrastructure, permitting effort, and stakeholder engagement are major value drivers, multiple sizable mineralized systems can matter as much as grade. Trilogy highlights a Bornite Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) framework and positioning that could extend UKMP mine activity beyond a single mine life scenario. 

The Practical Overlay: Permitting and the “Access” Question

Even the best geology has to clear practical hurdles. On permitting, Trilogy’s presentation notes that a 404 wetlands permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the only significant federal permit required, with other major permits issued by the State of Alaska. 

The document also lays out a NEPA Environmental Impact Statement pathway that frames permitting as a defined sequence rather than an abstract concept. 

Trilogy also emphasizes balance sheet positioning and strategic context, including disclosure of cash of approximately US$50 million and no debt (as presented). 

Why VMS Resonates with Metal Investors

For metal investors, VMS deposits remain compelling because they uniquely combine three characteristics: relatively high grades, multiple payable metals, and a tendency to occur in belts capable of hosting numerous deposits awaiting discovery. Trilogy’s exposure is framed around this district logic: a large land position in a mineral-rich belt, anchored by a feasibility-stage Arctic VMS deposit and complemented by a second major copper system at Bornite. 

In plain terms, VMS geology is compelling because it offers a repeatable recipe for building a mining district. Trilogy Metals is attempting to translate that recipe into an Alaska-based critical minerals development story, with the Arctic deposit serving as the feasibility-stage cornerstone and the broader UKMP footprint providing exploration upside and long-term optionality – exactly the kind of repeatable potential that VMS belts are known for.

For more information, visit www.trilogymetals.com. 

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Disseminated on behalf of SPARC AI Inc. (CSE: SPAI) (OTCQB: SPAIF) and may include paid advertising.

• SPARC AI is positioning Overwatch as a geolocation intelligence platform that enables drones and robots to navigate and geolocate targets without GPS, lasers, radar, or lidar
• The company’s stack spans a software only Target Acquisition System, a Mobile Acquisition System that turns phones into targeting nodes, and a GPS denied Navigation System for autonomous waypoint flight paths
• SPARC AI describes a recurring annual fee per connected device business model, with a stated mission to connect one million devices to Overwatch

Modern security and defense planning increasingly assumes that satellite navigation will not be reliable in every theater, every mission, or every moment. As electronic warfare, spoofing, and signal denial become mainstream risks, the premium shifts toward systems that can still deliver repeatable positioning, targeting, and mission execution when the easy layers of infrastructure disappear.

A Software First Answer to GPS Denial

SPARC AI (CSE: SPAI) (OTCQB: SPAIF) is building its platform around a simple premise: autonomy and targeting should not require a stack of expensive, power hungry hardware to function in contested environments. The company describes itself as a software company focused on GPS denied autonomy and target intelligence for defense and security markets, enabling drones and robots across land, air, and sea to geolocate and navigate without GPS, laser, radar, or lidar. 

In its materials, SPARC AI emphasizes that the approach is built on advanced mathematical modeling that creates a 3D spatial understanding of terrain and position, with the intent of reducing cost, power demands, and detectability in signal jammed environments. 

The company also points to a long research runway, citing 15 years of research and development and registered patents in seven countries, including the United States. 

Core Systems: Target Acquisition, Mobile, and Navigation

The company’s presentation breaks the platform into three operational building blocks that can be deployed separately or tied together.

Target Acquisition System. SPARC AI describes a software only Target Acquisition System designed to determine the geolocation of a distant object or point of interest, without requiring sensors, lasers, radar, lidar, image recognition, or GPS. 

The claimed advantage is a “zero signature” configuration, supported by a product principle that emphasizes operation with “zero detectable emissions” for contested environments. 

Mobile Acquisition System. The mobile layer is positioned as a way to push targeting workflows down to the operator level. In SPARC AI’s description, once a target is identified on screen, the mobile system calculates the geolocation of that target and sends it to a connected drone, which can autonomously fly to the coordinates for follow on action. 

The company frames this as turning smartphones into mission nodes that can maintain accuracy even when GPS is jammed. 

GPS Denied Navigation System. SPARC AI also describes a navigation layer that leverages its targeting capability to generate waypoint flight paths in GPS denied environments. 

The system is positioned as mission planning software that can generate a 360-degree autonomous flight path around a target, while maintaining a continuous camera lock for persistent surveillance and real time intelligence. 

Overwatch as the Intelligence Layer

Overwatch is presented as the unifying layer that integrates Target Acquisition and Autonomous Navigation into a single workflow. 

The presentation highlights analytical tooling inside Overwatch, including target classification, mission planning, insights, and timeline analysis intended to record movements and behaviors for surveillance, reconnaissance, and tracking. 

Strategically, SPARC AI states its mission as connecting one million devices to Overwatch, across air, land, sea surface, and below sea. 

Commercially, it describes a recurring annual fee per connected device model, a structure that aligns with software deployment across large fleets rather than one off hardware sales. 

Integration Path and Field Readiness Signals

The company’s materials also emphasize designing products to “reach every customer and device,” alongside a path to commercialization built around third party integrations and APIs that make integration into drones and robotic systems faster and more cost effective. 

One concrete example cited in the presentation is an integration with Parrot ANAFI GOV/MIL, described as a U.S. built drone used by defense agencies and first responders, listed on the Blue UAS Cleared List, with SPARC AI providing edge software integrated into the drone’s flight controller to capture geolocation data that is transmitted to Overwatch. 

Taken together, SPARC AI’s positioning is clear: as drones proliferate and low cost platforms are fielded at scale, mission reliability in denied environments becomes a software problem as much as a hardware one. SPARC AI is attempting to be the layer that makes commodity sensors and common devices deliver higher confidence targeting and navigation, even when GPS is not an option.

For more information, visit the company’s website at https://sparcai.co.

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• Wellgistics sponsored Dream Bowl 2026 and participated in the Datavault AI shareholder distribution plan for the Dream Bowl 2026 meme coin. 
• The first-ever Dream Bowl 2026 meme coin was not a financial instrument or a currency but was a digital collectible with utility tied to the event experience. 
• Datavault AI’s broader mission centers on advancing AI-driven data experiences, valuation and monetization of digital assets within the Web3 environment.

Datavault AI (NASDAQ: DVLT) gained attention for its role in an innovative digital collectible initiative tied to one of the most anticipated sporting events of early 2026. Through a sponsorship arrangement with Wellgistics Health Inc., Datavault AI’s technology and wallet infrastructure supported the distribution of the Dream Bowl 2026 meme coin, a unique blockchain-based digital token incorporating exclusive intellectual property and event metadata. The partnership explained how tokenized assets can intersect with real-world events and highlighted the Dream Bowl event itself, which drew thousands of attendees and generated broader visibility for the emerging collaboration between Web3 and major live spectacles. 

According to the announcement, Wellgistics sponsored Dream Bowl 2026 and participated in the Datavault AI shareholder distribution plan for the Dream Bowl 2026 meme coin. Dream Bowl 2026 culminated on January 11, 2026, at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas, featuring elite athletes competing for the championship. As part of this initiative, Wellgistics set a record date and distribution date for the digital token in December; the meme coin was described as a digital collectible designed to embed immutable ticketing information, details on invited athletes, game highlights and event insights. The coin served as a unique tokenized symbol of participation in this groundbreaking event. 

The first-ever Dream Bowl 2026 meme coin was not a financial instrument or a currency but was a digital collectible with utility tied to the event experience. It was described as a personal, noncommercial digital item that did not confer equity, voting rights, dividends, profit-sharing or ownership in Wellgistics, Datavault AI or any other entity. It also did not represent a right to monetary payments or appreciation and wasn’t offered for the purpose of fundraising or capital raising. Rather, the token’s appeal lay in its embedded event metadata, ticket recognition and tie-ins with the Dream Bowl championship event. 

The meme coin initiative reflected a broader trend among technology and entertainment companies exploring how blockchain and digital collectible ecosystems can be linked with major sporting and cultural events. By leveraging Datavault AI’s wallet ecosystem for the distribution of the Dream Bowl meme coin, Datavault and Wellgistics underscored an ambition to create value and engagement around the Dream Bowl that went beyond traditional ticketing and memorabilia. The usage of Datavault wallets as the delivery mechanism highlighted how the company’s platform supports experiential data, digital asset management and event corroboration through blockchain-enabled distribution methods.  

The Dream Bowl event itself was expected to attract thousands of spectators to Dallas’s AT&T Stadium for the championship showdown. This high attendance figure, paired with the involvement of a competitive esports team and the novel digital collectible distribution, signaled a blending of live-event entertainment with tech-driven fan engagement. 

Datavault AI’s broader mission centers on advancing AI-driven data experiences, valuation and monetization of digital assets within the Web3 environment. The company’s cloud-based platform is designed to help companies and organizations structure, secure and activate data assets, enabling use cases ranging from artificial information (“AI”) automation and analytics to secure digital engagement and tokenization. Through this lens, the Dream Bowl meme coin represented a real-world application of Datavault’s technology, bridging the gap between blockchain-enabled digital items and high-profile live events. 

Datavault AI’s involvement in the distribution of the Dream Bowl 2026 Meme Coin also reflects its interest in the intersection of AI, Web3 and sports entertainment. The company’s platform integrates data monetization, secure asset creation and interactive engagement mechanisms, positioning it to support emerging digital economies tethered to real-world experiences. The Dream Bowl initiative, with its blend of athletic competition, blockchain collectible distribution and fan engagement, illustrates how companies such as Datavault AI are exploring novel ways to enhance event experiences through innovative and game-changing technology. By enabling shareholders to receive and interact with digital tokens linked to a major live event, Datavault AI and its partners are signaling a future in which digital engagement extends beyond screens and enters the arena of physical event participation. 

For more information, visit www.DVLT.ai.

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Disseminated on behalf of MAX Power Mining Corp. (CSE: MAXX) (OTC: MAXXF) and may include paid advertising.

• The investment marks the first major investment by a Vietnam-based company into Saskatchewan’s emerging Natural Hydrogen sector.
• MAX Power Mining is among the first publicly traded companies in North America focused on commercial-scale Natural Hydrogen development. 
• This funding round follows a series of other strategic moves by MAX Power aimed at positioning the company for success. 

MAX Power Mining (CSE: MAXX) (OTC: MAXXF) has announced a significant financial milestone this week, revealing the successful closing of a $5 million non-brokered private placement with a leading Vietnamese energy conglomerate. This strategic move is expected to accelerate the company’s efforts to unlock Natural Hydrogen across its vast land position in Saskatchewan, one of Canada’s premier resource jurisdictions. This injection of capital not only provides fuel for exploration but also positions MAX Power Mining to deepen its role in developing one of the most promising frontiers in clean energy. 

According to the company, the investment was made by Big Energy Joint Stock Company, an affiliate of Bitexco, marking the first major investment by a Vietnam-based company into Saskatchewan’s emerging Natural Hydrogen sector. The transaction, which closed at a price of C$0.30 per unit, saw the issuance of 16,666,666 units for aggregate gross proceeds of C$5 million. Each unit included one common share and one-half of a warrant exercisable at C$0.45 for a two-year period, with certain acceleration provisions tied to share price performance. 

This investment is not just about capital. The move represents a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating potential discovery and commercial development of Natural Hydrogen across MAX Power’s 1.3-million-acre permitted land package in Saskatchewan, a corridor the company views as highly prospective for large-scale hydrogen accumulations. 

“We are on the cusp of another clean-energy breakthrough in Saskatchewan, and this new Vietnamese partnership, on top of the investment by Eric Sprott this past summer, strategically positions MAX Power to achieve its short-term and longer-term objectives,” stated MAX Power Mining CEO Ran Narayanasamy. “We welcome Big Energy, an affiliate of Bitexco, as a major new shareholder in MAX Power under its owner and chairman, Mr. Vu Quang Hoi, a prominent Vietnamese business leader and founder and chairman of Bitexco. MAX Power’s Natural Hydrogen Project is Big Energy’s first investment in Canada.”

The significance of this funding cannot be overstated in the context of the company’s broader mission. Natural Hydrogen, also sometimes called geologic or white hydrogen, is hydrogen that occurs naturally in subsurface environments, unconstrained by the high energy costs and emissions associated with traditional hydrogen production processes such as steam methane reforming or water electrolysis. Scientists and industry analysts see Natural Hydrogen as a potentially transformative source of clean energy precisely because it could be extracted with fewer carbon inputs and at potentially lower cost, offering a clean, reliable energy vector to complement renewable sources. 

MAX Power is among the first publicly traded companies in North America focused on commercial-scale Natural Hydrogen development. The company’s Saskatchewan projects are centered on the Genesis Trend, a geological corridor that has been delineated through extensive aeromagnetic, gravity and legacy data as highly prospective for both hydrogen and helium accumulations. The company commenced drilling on Canada’s first dedicated Natural Hydrogen well at its Lawson target in late 2025, intersecting multiple hydrogen-bearing horizons and moving into analytic and completion testing phases to better understand the volume and flow characteristics of the gas. 

Access to solid financial backing is crucial for companies operating in frontier resource sectors such as Natural Hydrogen. Exploration and drilling programs, particularly when they aim to pioneer a new class of energy resource, require sustained capital commitment. The $5 million investment from Big Energy not only supports near-term exploration and drilling activities but also de-risks the company’s path toward potential commercial discovery and development by improving its balance sheet and credibility with institutional and strategic partners.

Beyond funding technical operations, strong financial support can also expand market confidence in a company’s strategy. Investors often view strategic investments from established industry players, particularly those with deep experience in energy production, as endorsements of a company’s vision and prospects. In this case, Bitexco’s decision to invest signals confidence in both MAX Power’s leadership and the commercial potential of Natural Hydrogen as a long-term clean energy source. 

In addition to expanding the investor base, the agreement grants Big Energy certain investor rights, including pro rata participation in future financings and potential board-nomination privileges, subject to exchange approval. MAX Power also plans to use the net proceeds from the offering to advance its Saskatchewan Natural Hydrogen exploration, as well as for general corporate purposes. 

This funding round follows a series of other strategic moves by MAX Power aimed at positioning the company for success. Earlier in 2025, the company accelerated its CEO transition to bring in Narayanasamy ahead of schedule to guide the Natural Hydrogen program through critical technical and commercial milestones. It also announced new board leadership and other partnerships designed to support its exploration efforts and global communications strategy.  

From a broader industry perspective, investment momentum toward natural hydrogen exploration is part of a larger push to decarbonize energy systems while meeting rising global energy demand, particularly in sectors where renewable electricity alone may not suffice as a primary energy source. Hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy industry, long-distance transport and grid-scale baseload power all have burgeoning demand for low-carbon fuels such as hydrogen, and Natural Hydrogen offers a potential pathway to provide these fuels with a smaller carbon footprint. 

For MAX Power Mining, the combination of strategic capital, a massive land position, early drilling success and a clear roadmap for advancing discovery into development underscores its potential as a leading player in the Natural Hydrogen sector. While exploration inherently involves uncertainty, the company’s ability to attract substantial backing from international energy players highlights the compelling opportunity that Natural Hydrogen represents and reflects growing confidence in the company’s vision to help define this new energy frontier. 

As the company advances its drilling programs and continues to integrate new geological data, investors and industry observers will be watching closely to see how this financial foundation enables MAX Power to progress toward commercialization and help deliver cleaner, more sustainable energy solutions for the future. 

For more information, visit www.MaxPowerMining.com.

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• LIXTE has acquired Liora Technologies Europe Ltd., securing its proprietary LiGHT system for advanced proton therapy treatment
• Liora works at the forefront of electronically controlled proton beam innovation, with its platform installed at the UK’s STFC Daresbury Laboratory
• These updates highlight LIXTE’s overarching mission to blend breakthrough drug development with transformative radiotherapy innovations in the global cancer fight

Cancer is still one of the most widespread life-threatening diseases globally, with nearly all families affected either directly or as caregivers. Innovations in the medical ecosystem continue to gain momentum with the emergence of new immunotherapies, targeted drugs, and advanced radiation treatments. In light of this, LIXTE Biotech (NASDAQ: LIXT) is complementing traditional drug development into the rapidly evolving field of proton therapy, utilizing Liora Technologies, its newly acquired subsidiary (ibn.fm/UihRx).

Towards the end of 2025, the company finalized its acquisition of Liora, signaling its foray into the radiotherapy segment of cancer care. This strategic move includes Liora’s LiGHT system, which stands for Linac for Image Guided Hadron Therapy. This platform is designed to enhance the delivery of proton therapy and address identified limitations in many conventional systems (ibn.fm/mPijd).

Proton therapy is an improved form of radiation therapy that leverages proton particles instead of regular X-rays to destroy tumor DNA. Protons, unlike photon radiation, release most of their energy at a precise depth within the body. This feature helps doctors better target tumors while cutting down radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissue. The precision is crucial when tumors are found close to organs such as the spinal cord, brain, lungs, or heart, and it can be useful for children who are likely to be more susceptible to long-term side effects resulting from radiation (ibn.fm/QqpkB).

Although proton therapy has its own unique clinical benefits, traditional systems are usually complex, large, and expensive. Many such therapies depend on synchrotrons or cyclotrons that require significant resources. These barriers have limited the number of proton therapy centers globally.

Liora’s LiGHT system is currently installed at the Science and Technology Facilities Council Daresbury Laboratory in Britain, with over $300 million invested in it so far. The electronically controlled system enables adaptability, flexibility, and the potential for lower costs of installation compared to the regular alternatives.

The LiGHT system is also created to deliver high dose rates to deep-seated tumors, reducing the number of treatment sessions needed while increasing the total number of patients a treatment center can handle. Improved efficiency could also help improve proton therapy access while also optimizing the financial model for operators.

LIXTE’s acquisition of Liora highlights a strategic expansion that goes beyond its regular pharmaceutical pipeline, with the company’s lead drug candidate, LB 100, currently being assessed in clinical trials for ovarian clear cell carcinoma and metastatic colon cancer. By blending advanced radiation technology and innovative drug development, the company is creating a solid oncology platform that tackles cancer from a broader angle.

Given the growing demand for more effective cancer treatment options, LIXTE’s entry into proton therapy through Liora Technologies and the LiGHT system holds significant potential. Through the blend of next-generation radiation therapy and pharmaceutical innovation, the company is working hard to improve cancer treatment while also creating opportunities for investors.

For more information, visit the company website at https://lixte.com.

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Disseminated on behalf of ESGold Corp. (CSE: ESAU) (OTCQB: ESAUF) and may include paid advertising.

• ESGold Corp., a development-stage company committed to the acquisition, exploration, and development of high-quality mineral properties worldwide, just announced the appointment of Galen Carson to its Advisory Board
• Mr. Carson will support ESGold across strategic planning, long-term value positioning, and capital markets engagement
• It follows the recent addition of 144 mining claims to its Montauban project, which brought the total claims to 417
• The acquisition of these additional claims marked a critical inflection point for ESGold, with Mr. Carson’s appointment serving as a testament to the company’s ambition and its commitment to realizing them

ESGold (CSE: ESAU) (OTCQB: ESAUF), a development-stage company committed to acquiring, exploring, and developing high-quality mineral properties worldwide, just announced the appointment of Galen Carson to its Advisory Board. In his capacity, Mr. Carson will support ESGold across strategic planning, long-term value positioning, and capital markets engagement, particularly as the company advances towards near-term gold and silver production for 2026 (https://ibn.fm/jtLrC).

Mr. Carson has a history with ESGold, having worked closely with the company since October 2024 through Caram Media Inc. In his previous engagement, he helped establish a long-term strategic relationship that has been integral to ESGold’s progress thus far. Over this period, Mr. Carson contributed to the company’s broader strategic transformation, which included multiple financings totaling approximately C$20 million to advance its fully permitted Montauban Gold-Silver Project.

“Over the past year, ESGold has undergone a fundamental transformation,” noted ESGold’s CEO, Gordon Robb. “We secured the capital required to move Montauban toward production, strengthened our shareholder base, and significantly elevated the technical understanding of the asset. Galen has worked alongside our team throughout this evolution, contributing across capital markets strategy, business development, and corporate positioning. We are pleased to formalize this relationship as we enter the next phase of growth,” he added (https://ibn.fm/jtLrC).

Mr. Carson’s appointment reflects ESGold’s continued commitment to strengthening its leadership and to stamping its position as a leader in its space. It also speaks to its optimism and ambition, particularly following the recent addition of 144 mining claims for its Montauban Project.

“I’m honored to be joining ESGold’s Advisory Board and to be taking this relationship to the next level,” noted Mr. Carson. “With production approaching and exploration accelerating in parallel, ESGold is positioned to demonstrate the full potential of this project. I believe the most transformative chapter for ESGold and its shareholders is still ahead,” he added (https://ibn.fm/jtLrC).

With the addition of the new mining claims, ESGold now has a total of 417 in and around its Montauban project. The expansion followed the recent completion of an ambient noise tomography (“ANT”)- based 3D geological model, which identified the potential for a mineralized corridor extending to approximately 900 meters in depth and over 2 kilometers of strike. The results further noted that these findings extend beyond the surveyed area of the property, highlighting the potential that remains largely untapped.

“The recently completed 3D geological model fundamentally changed our understanding of Montauban and underscored the importance of securing control over the broader geological system,” noted Mr. Robb. “The addition of nearly 76 square kilometers of strategically positioned ground around Montauban is aimed at providing the scale necessary to properly evaluate the potential extent of the mineralized corridor identified by the model and to ensure we are not constrained by the historical boundaries as we systematically assess what Montauban may ultimately become,” he added (https://ibn.fm/3SSnk).

For ESGold, this expansion marks a critical inflection point, positioning it to systematically evaluate the property’s full potential and what it offers. In addition, Mr. Carson’s appointment is indicative of the company’s big ambitions and its commitment to realizing them, not just for management but also for the various stakeholders involved. It is an opportunity for the company to make a name for itself in the industry and redefine the scale of its flagship Montauban project.

For company information, visit the company’s website at www.ESGold.com.

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• With a focus on energy orchestration software rather than grid hardware or power generation, GridAI addresses the immediate need to coordinate and control energy throughout hyperscale AI campuses.
• With rising AI-driven electricity demand rapidly exposing the limits of traditional grid planning cycles, GridAI’s model centers on real-time coordination of existing assets and allows hyperscalers to optimize the design of new infrastructure buildout.
• The company’s platform operates across the entire data center campus, managing grid power, on-site generation, battery storage, and market participation, to position energy control as a financial and operational lever for large power users.

For much of the AI investment cycle, attention has centered on semiconductors, cloud platforms, and compute capacity. As the AI boom intensifies, the focus has shifted to speed-to-power and the optimization of the entire complex hyperscaler energy campus. Modern AI data centers require continuous, high-density power. Yet the grid was not built for clustered, compute-driven loads that scale in quarters rather than decades. As AI workloads expand, the ability to manage how energy is sourced, dispatched, and monetized is becoming a critical variable in project timelines and operating margins (https://ibn.fm/hisYt).

That is the gap which GridAI (NASDAQ: GRDX) is targeting, by operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure. GridAI describes itself as a real-time, AI-native software orchestration platform designed to coordinate grid power, on-site generation, battery storage, backup systems, and dynamic load across hyperscale AI campuses and distributed energy systems.

The company is not attempting to redesign the electric grid itself, or to optimize GPU workloads inside data centers. Instead, it operates across the data center campus, at the interface between large power consumers and the broader energy ecosystem.

AI data centers, particularly those built for high-performance computing and large-scale model training, draw continuous and often variable loads. These facilities increasingly cluster in regions where grid capacity is already constrained. At the same time, electric vehicles, distributed renewables, and electrified industrial processes are all adding complexity to power systems originally designed for predictable demand.

Analysts have projected that global capacity needs tied to these trends could increase by more than 50 gigawatts by 2028. Traditional grid upgrades require long planning cycles, regulatory approvals, and significant capital expenditure. In the near term, operators must work with existing infrastructure.

GridAI’s position is that the binding constraint is no longer power generation alone but rather speed-to-power and control – how power is dispatched, balanced, and monetized in real time. The company’s software coordinates multiple energy inputs, including grid interconnections, reciprocating engines, battery energy storage systems (“BESS”), and in some cases renewables such as solar. It manages these assets in the context of fluctuating fuel prices, wholesale electricity markets, and utility programs. Crucially, while orchestration decisions can be made at the GPU rack level, GridAI instead manages and optimizes energy flows before electricity reaches the servers.

Historically, grid modernization has meant physical expansion – more transmission lines, substations, and generation assets. Those investments remain necessary but move slowly. Software-based coordination can be deployed more quickly and adjusted in real time.

GridAI frames its role as an intelligence layer across assets that were not originally designed to work together dynamically. By coordinating dispatch between grid supply, on-site engines, and storage, the platform seeks to reduce congestion risk, manage volatility, and support resiliency without waiting for large infrastructure buildouts.

For hyperscale operators, power availability can delay campus buildouts or require expensive long-term contracts. Poorly managed energy procurement can inflate operating costs. Conversely, effective participation in real-time and day-ahead markets can generate revenue streams that partially offset costs. GridAI’s model integrates those variables. Its software considers the cost of natural gas, grid tariffs, demand charges, and market pricing signals. It also integrates potential revenue from grid services programs.

Beyond hyperscale campuses, GridAI manages applications for fleets, distributed power systems, and even residential environments where behind-the-meter devices and renewable assets require coordination. While data centers represent the most acute demand center today, the underlying architecture is designed to operate across multiple layers of the energy system.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Grid-AI.com.

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Disseminated on behalf of LaFleur Minerals Inc. (CSE: LFLR) (OTCQB: LFLRF) and may include paid advertising.

• LaFleur Minerals is finalizing upgrades and refurbishments at its flagship gold production property, Beacon Gold Mill, in the renowned Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Eastern Canada
• LaFleur’s mine-to-mill model includes its district-scale Swanson Gold Project that intends to provide feed for production operations at the company’s nearby 750 tpd Beacon Gold Mill which is being readied to process material
• LaFleur is completing a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) anticipated by March, drawing on a current indicated mineral resource estimate of 2.11 million metric tons with an average grade of 1.8 grams per metric ton of gold, containing 123,400 ounces of gold
• LaFleur recently completed an oversubscribed and upsized $7.8 million financing to sustain the final moves toward production

Gold explorer and near-term gold producer LaFleur Minerals (CSE: LFLR) (OTCQB: LFLRF) is preparing to combine resource development with market consciousness at its strategically located gold deposit and its nearby mill facility to launch gold production within the renowned Abitibi Gold Belt of Eastern Canada, Canada’s largest gold producing region. The company intends to release its PEA (Preliminary Economic Assessment) near-term, which will be a major de-risking milestone and potential re-rating pivot ahead of gold production restart at its wholly owned Beacon Gold Mill.

“LaFleur Minerals has assembled what we believe is a technically differentiated and strategically rare asset base for a company at our stage of development,” LaFleur Chief Executive Officer Paul Ténière stated in a Feb. 18 news release (https://ibn.fm/IDkHx). “After only (approximately) 18 months of listing on the CSE (Canadian Securities Exchange), we control a district-scale exploration project at the Swanson Gold Deposit as potential primary feed source, the Beacon Tailings Pond, and fully permitted processing infrastructure, the Beacon Gold Mill.”

Historically, the Abitibi belt has been responsible for delivering more than 300 million ounces historically, when current reserve estimates are factored in (https://ibn.fm/mbJap). LaFleur’s flagship Swanson Gold Project contains a vast 183 square kilometers of mineral claims and a mining lease rich in gold and critical metals that are centered around the company’s Swanson Gold Deposit, the primary source of mineralized material to feed the company’s nearby gold production infrastructure asset.

The project hosts an indicated mineral resource estimate of 2.11 million metric tons with an average grade of 1.8 grams per metric ton of gold, containing 123,400 ounces of gold. The company has an inferred mineral resource estimate of 872,000 metric tons with an average grade of 2.3 g/t gold, containing 64,500 oz of gold (MRE effective September 17, 2024 and reported in updated NI 43-101 technical report dated July 29, 2025) (https://ibn.fm/nTGd4).

“LaFleur Minerals is advancing its PEA (Preliminary Economic Assessment) in parallel with the refurbishment of an existing processing facility, materially compressing the timeline between resource delineation and potential production,” Ténière stated. “As our PEA approaches completion, targeted for March 2026, and as we prepare for pre-operational tests and system checks at the Beacon Gold Mill in the coming months, we are transitioning from pure exploration and development to gold production execution.”

Despite occasional price swings, Gold has enjoyed a meteoric rise in market demand, climbing from around $2,000 per ounce in 2022, when the Beacon Gold Mill last produced gold, to around $5,000 today, as LaFleur restarts gold production, highlighting a major opportunity and profitable economic case. “Advancing the Beacon Gold Mill to restart gold production with gold prices at record levels … offers amazing economic potential,” Ténière noted in November (https://ibn.fm/emp7x). In addition, the Quebec-based company benefits from recently completed an oversubscribed and upsized $7.8 million financing to move things forward and complete the necessary upgrades to restart gold production at Beacon.

Lafleur is also working with government and rail industry officials to relocate a segment of rail line through both the Swanson Property and the Beacon Gold Mill site near Val d’Or, Quebec, and then add a dedicated rail spur to facilitate efficient loading and transport of material to the mill from deposit sites with a minimum of over-the-road transportation, increasing the efficiency and economics of the company’s vertically-integrated business model over the long-term, especially if the company expands the mill’s capacity to 3,000-4,000 tpd which is currently a subject of the PEA study.

For more information, visit the company’s website at LaFleurMinerals.com.

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• Lahontan recently reported initial assays from Lahontan’s maiden reverse-circulation drilling at the company’s satellite West Santa Fe project
• Management’s commentary explicitly tied the drilling to an investor-relevant milestone: Validating the historical database for future resource estimation work
• The company has also retained RESPEC Company LLC and Kappes, Cassiday & Associates to update the Santa Fe Mine Project technical report

Repeatable, shallow oxide drill success and a clear path to updated economics can be the combination that moves a gold developer from story to strategy for investors. Recent updates from Lahontan Gold (TSX.V: LG) (OTCQB: LGCXF) regarding activity at its Santa Fe project center on exactly that: new near-surface results that support potential resource growth, and the start of a formal update process for the project’s mineral resource estimate and  preliminary economic assessment (“PEA”).

The company recently reported initial assays from Lahontan’s maiden reverse-circulation drilling at the company’s satellite West Santa Fe project, located about 13 kilometers from the Santa Fe Mine project. The report noted the first of six reverse-circulation drill holes completed at West Santa Fe, 593 meters total for the program so far, with additional results expected.

The headline value in this news for investors is the combination of thickness, grade and shallow depth in oxide material, along with explicit technical context on how the intercept relates to historic drilling and potential future resource work. Lahontan reported that drill hole WSF25-06R returned 54.9 metres grading 1.00 g/t gold equivalent from 24.4 to 79.3 meters, including 16.8 meters grading 1.75 g/t gold equivalent from 27.4 to 44.2 meters. The company noted that WSF25-06R was drilled at a -50-degree inclination and that the intercept begins at a depth from surface of only 19 meters, emphasizing the near-surface nature of the mineralization.

West Santa Fe is also a silver-rich system, and the company reported that individual silver intercepts range up to 176 g/t silver over 1.52 meters (28.96 to 30.48 meters). Importantly for a resource-growth narrative, the company described the intercept as “a shallow, thick, intercept of oxide gold mineralization confirming gold and silver mineralization reported in historic drill holes,” and it presented comparisons to historic drilling in the same zone.

Management’s commentary explicitly tied the drilling to an investor-relevant milestone: Validating the historical database for future resource estimation work. Founder and CEO Kimberly Ann noted that the company’s database contains “information on 171 drill holes totaling over 13,000 meters,” and she described validating that database “for use in future Mineral Resource Estimates” as “an important step in advancing West Santa Fe.” She also connected the satellite project to the broader Santa Fe investment case, stating that its proximity “makes the project an important part of the company’s strategy to grow gold and silver mineral resources that could potentially be exploited utilizing future mineral processing infrastructure at Santa Fe.”

In a second update, Lahontan Gold reported that it has retained RESPEC Company LLC and Kappes, Cassiday & Associates to update the Santa Fe Mine Project technical report, including a new mineral resource estimate and a new preliminary economic assessment. The company said the updated resource estimate will incorporate all drilling completed since October 2024 and will use new metallurgical data, mining costs, and revised gold and silver prices to design conceptual pit shells that constrain the estimate. After the updated resource is completed, the team is expected to focus on a revised PEA reflecting the new technical inputs and metal prices, with the resource update expected in the next few months and the PEA expected in the second quarter of 2026.

This update effort is intended to improve geological confidence as well as the project’s decision-ready framework. Ann said the company has additional drilling to incorporate, plus “a revised and very detailed three-dimensional geologic model, which will greatly aid gold and silver grade interpolation.” She also noted that the preliminary economic assessment process is vital because it creates an operational model to evaluate multiple mining scenarios across metal prices and generate key permitting-related inputs such as process throughput assumptions and waste rock tonnages.

In both updates, Lahontan reiterated core Santa Fe fundamentals. The project is a past-producing open-pit, heap-leach operation, reporting historical production of 359,202 ounces of gold and 702,067 ounces of silver between 1988 and 1995. Lahontan also reported a Canadian National Instrument 43-101 compliant mineral resource for Santa Fe of 1,539,000 ounces gold equivalent in the indicated category and 411,000 ounces gold equivalent inferred, both pit-constrained, and it pointed readers to the Santa Fe technical reporting for details.

Taken together, the drilling update and the study-update announcement present a coherent Santa Fe narrative for investors: Ongoing near-surface oxide results that support the case for potential growth, alongside a defined timeline and consultant lineup for refreshing the resource and economic picture that underpins valuation.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.LahontanGoldCorp.com.

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